I have a blueprint for a cluster. It has a single vSphere VM on it that allows 3..4 instances (numbers kept small for this explanation). I want to put half of the VMs in one VM group and the other half in another VM group. (The groups are pre-defined with a vSphere DRS anti-affinity rule). This way, if I loose a server, worst case scenario is I loose half of the cluster.
My problem: How do I tell in post-provisioning if this is instance 0, 1, 2 or 3 so that I can put the VM into the correct VM group. Instance 0 and 2 should go to VM group A and instance 1 and 3 should go to VM group B. In vRO, I can not find any properties that allow me to identify the instance. This gets further complicated with scale-in/out.
Thanks,
Carl L.